Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-12
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enrolment ever known.
Counterfeit 8 cent pieces are in circulation
throughout the state.
The Daily Herald, Of Des Moines, now pub
fishes q weekly edition.
Red Oak registered SIG, which was seventy
seven less than last year.
The loss by fire 1T the Carver coal mine Il
estimated at about GO, 900.
Work was commenced this week on the
new Lutheran church at Estherville.
A gasoline stove explosion called out the
fire department at Des Moines Tuesday.
The registration books at Creston are
ornameuted by the names OF a dozen or two
LADIES.
Lee Amy, the young man who was accident
ally sho, at Council Bluffs, is rapidly conya-
iescing.
John Donbook, nearly eigh:y-three years
old, was run over by a train at Fort Atkinson
and killed.
Valley CRY has doubled its population dsr
ing the last four years, and the News PRE-.
diets that III four yesrs 1t will have arobula
ton Of 5000.
Tho board II trustees at Coe College at Ce-
Jar Rapids were in session Wednesday ano
| found the Affairs OF the college in excellent
condition.
The number OF cAses of oiphtherfa and scar.
let fever reported in Davenport last month
was 80; about 20 cases were scarlet fever ano
the rest diphtheris.
Twe!ve boy and four girls, who though
they would paint the town red snd celebrat
Hallow Eve as they never eli before, wer,
run in by the police at Davenport.
City Collector Struck, OF Davenport, co..
lecteo during the month If October s44 972
so In taxes, and his total collie i'm frou
A 2ril /, 1887, to November 1 was sl06, 44i.7s
Tor taxes, licenses AMI other revenues.
President Stuyvesant Fish, OF New York;
ex Pros d snt j. Q. Clark, General Manage
Jeffrey, General Superintendent Beck ard
General solicitor Aver, of tn Illinois Contra
railway, visited Dubuque Tuesday.
The Union Pac fc conti actors have FIR
ished the work of grading under the easter
approach Of the new bridge at Council Bluff
e Hackinsop, emplo, ed in the Eurek
coal miDe near Des Moines, had a leg broker
Tuesday through an accident III the mine.
iwo Dee Moines girls were no ri lied Tues.
day evening, upon folng to their rooms, 20
hnd that q man had secreted himself in thei
closet, 1t Is thought that he entered for tn,
purpose @. rosbe'y, for when discovered he
took TO his heels.
The report Of the Storm Lake public schools
fnr 4 b. ,o,pth apAipu lkofnh.r OK Oh "a. SSt
pupils enrolled; aver sc daily attendap nee $50.
rays absent S3t: neither absent nor tardy S4
ana @G aulils drorped FROM the rclIs Gu &C.
cou1t # Sickness.
The condition OF the state finances at the
close 81 business Saturday, October 20, 1887
w4s IS follows: Warrants ont>taucins,
S544 96s AZ; cash on hans, i69,3i7 &c; total
tbt, S475 620 90 These figures are furnish.
ed fre,. TIE state tressurer's Office.
IT. Dps Autnes over | go names were added
0 III list We nesday, making a total rcci~
fat on 90 6450 l. Dub que the total Il
$50 aa increase Of about 100 over last ear
X 'kaa. 2 @29 Mt Pleasant shows q loss Q
i6 IN Font Dot ge a loss % 81
As'ugua r divorce Case c. m up IN the d.
re court ruesday at Dubuque. The plain
If asked Tor a divorce from ais wife on u
ground Of deserti0n. He says that six moutu
( er he married her she left MIN. He the
marrtd A. n, q. d hence ais anxiety To get a
y ivurce SO as not TO b arrested for oig3my.
The PLAY of .'lpfatustion," in when Mis
Brarrlce Lien, a Dubuque girl, is tue star.
SCENE to be pproniateiy uamed. The local
rdi1Cr OF TIE Cedar Rapids c. zette, a b cAelof
,ays: "If Miss Bear &C Lieb is as '~infatuat.
ng' on the stage as she Is In pr;vat CONVEX
.atiou, Der play mas been well named, and sht
ls worthy OF al enthusiastic audience"
Rev. Mr.. Gtliopham, Of tie PresbyterIs,
cnarch at Loe az, was knocked down twice 81
Council Bluff, b Mr.. McWilli.ms, father OF
the ministers q V reed wife. H was marrled
u Council Bluffs about a year ago. He war
aoout thirtY. hge years OF age and Miss No
Wihisms sixteen be applied for a Giv)rce,
shc1 was denied, but one was after ~ard
granted on application Of his wife.
Tuesday night a burglar enter, d the house
&c. A. Snooks, OF the City Roller mill,
Council Bluffs, and picked ont from MIR
Snook'' wardrobe oil his beet clothes, a new
Dair OF shoes that cost 81, a new hat and 81
II cash. A thorough examination Of III
70 IL was made AMI It's occupant slept soundlJ
hrorgl all, and haa 10 iptimation OF Ii,
fhaft aAtii IL tne mosuius be beg n TO search
for his shirt and pants.
Iowa pens'eas granted Wednesday: Orig.
a~al-Thomas p Shaw, Lenox; James Speas-
nsr, Steux CRY George IL. Clements, Mi
re9ur.h; Fcank ". Davis, Corning. H..
rease-CorLeiius VI. Come9ys, Croker
i'rson Mills, Paris; Deutsa Tedron, Il
ni4kham; Alsbar Coynaell, New London
ilbgiE Il ment, NASHUA: Joseph NAY berry
Ciaripds; j we. 10, Seefmat, Washington
Hoses w. Wcich Eliott; J4mes Sage, Grand
| RIVER.
AS Two wtll dlysers wera sinking a we'll o.
a farm IN Washington Township, Rusgo q
ounts, at the q ia - four zen feet they b,
al 10 fiud wbite va nuts, vel rry served, q,
thicn they o k ur shou' AAf "A bushel a
depth OF six een fset they found q log %
good and a pair of deer's hoins. The h,rr,
were quite soft when drs taken out # u,
Irouad, but became hard waen expose
The air. The well was dug In a timber coup
y, u one Ie u ,sr feature Of the case )
tree In the county